Uncategorized Who are you, really? Ah, personality quizzes. In bygone days, one took these in magazines. My favorite story about magazine quizzes was when a…
Uncategorized The mountains are calling The first summer I worked at the CVC, I contemplated the prospect of CampFIRE (it was then called CiViC Leadership…
Uncategorized Sheridan, it’s time for your close-up A picture is worth a thousand words. I’ve always credited Kodak for that, but perhaps I should dig deeper for…
Uncategorized Wake up and smell the aging I was not an early adopter of exercise. When I say not an early adopter, I was more of an…
Community Community Events Civity – the gift that keeps giving Did everyone survive Thanksgiving a few pounds heavier but with familial relationships mostly intact? ‘Tis the season for ugly political…
Introspections Who’s the smart one here? Over a drink with some friends the other night, I asked for ideas for this week’s column. One suggested the…
Community Introspections Back-to-School Realities If you missed the ads in between the political spots, it’s back-to-school time. I have no idea why January, February,…
Community Introspections A rude awakening I’ve recently returned from our youth leadership camp, CampFIRE. Thirty-six incoming high school freshmen from Sheridan and Johnson counties kept…
Community Community Events +1 Building Bridges I find it mind-blowing that we hosted Thrive vs. Survive Study Circles on Poverty ten years ago. Ten years! My…
Community Introspections Reflecting on retirement March 31 was a big day for my friend, Sandra. When you read this, she will be one of the…
Introspections Despite terror, still writing on How many of you are still having dreams, decades later, about classes you didn’t attend until the day of finals…
Introspections Mississippi is coming to me I just counted them up, and I’ve written around 100 columns since 2011. They started as updates about the CVC’s…